Introduction. affect in the present
Cruel optimism
Intuitionists: history and the affective event
Slow death (obesity, sovereignty, lateral agency)
Two girls, fat and thin
Nearly utopian, nearly normal: post-Fordist affect in La Promesse and Rosetta
After the good life, an impasse: time out, human resources, and the precarious present
On the desire for the political.
Cruel optimism by Lauren Gail Berlant. ISBN 9780822351115. Published by Duke University Press in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.